home boarder

noun

A child living at home but attending a school where other students board; a day boy.

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Meanings

nounhome boarder (plural home boarders)

plural home boarders

  1. A child living at home but attending a school where other students board; a day boy.

    He went first to Soho Academy, and as a home boarder at Westminster School he distinguished himself academically.

    2003, Elizabeth R. Lambert, Edmund Burke of Beaconsfield, page 93
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Chicago

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